Featured Projects

Happy Children's Garden (Cambodia)

In the 1970s, the brutal Pol Pot regime nearly destroyed Cambodia, killing around 2 million people through execution, forced labor or starvation. Thirty years later, the country still struggles to meet the basic needs of its people. Deep psychological scars remain, and many suffer from stress related disorders. Through this broken world walks Cambodia's next generation, growing up largely ignored and unwanted by adults who do not listen to them and cannot afford to send them to school. Instead, these children must stay at home, tending to younger siblings and doing housework. Lack of education even extends to hygiene and disease, which children can fall victim to so easily. Even those who are allowed to attend Sunday school may not get the guidance and love they need, as teachers lack the education and materials to adequately help them.

Seeing the desperate need of its nation's children, TWR-Cambodia's team produces the Happy Children's Garden program, a weekly 15-minute Bible story series geared to reach children of all ages. Beginning with creation and ending with Christ's return, each program not only teaches life applications, but also biblical traditions, customs, culture and the geography of the Holy Land, so that children will have a more complete knowledge of Scripture. Listeners learn songs performed by children in churches TWR's team visits, and they can win prizes by sending in correct answers to questions about the day's story.

Happy Children's Garden is currently aired on local FM stations throughout Cambodia. The TWR-Cambodia team also touches listeners' lives on a personal level through correspondence and rallies held in different villages, where they learn more biblical lessons, receive gifts of basic hygiene items and eat food specially prepared by volunteers.

Your gift of $100 will help direct Cambodian children toward a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

"This is Real Talk" Podcast

“Does spirituality even matter in the 21st century?” “What happens to me after I pass away?” “Where do my moral values come from?”

Eighty-two percent of European Millennials are completely disconnected from churches and religious organizations. To this people group, the questions above are confusing, complicated…and vital. They are yearning for truth.

Many young people go to online podcasts to find answers to their deepest questions. We are currently in the midst of a global podcast phenomenon. This is a gift from God for a media organization like TWR, and we need to meet those young people where they search for truth!

Furthermore, podcasts are ideally suited for engaging in personal and profound conversations about important spiritual topics. We now have a new podcast doing exactly this and reaching out to young, people—This Is Real Talk!

This Is Real Talk! is a video podcast series in which our host interviews young, prominent Christians, including writers and professional athletes, about fundamental spiritual questions such as those above. The videos are distributed via YouTube and the audio via popular audio apps.

We have already begun with the Spanish pilot project of Esto Es Real Talk! Check out the video version on YouTube. You can also listen to it on iTunes,Spotify, SoundCloud and Ivoox.

We hope to expand to new languages in Europe and beyond in the future. Many young Europeans are apathetic to religion. They see it as irrelevant to their lives. However, they are searching for truth and open to honest conversations.

Will you join us in this great opportunity to use a current media trend to reach a largely ignored audience with truth?

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1 https://knoema.com/hlth_ds040/participation-in-activities-of-churches-or-other-religious-organisations-by-level-of-activity-limita. There are few recent religious statistics on European Millennials. The population surveyed in this statistic were 16 to 24-year-olds in 2006, so they would be about 29-37 years old in 2019 (i.e. older Millennials).

A Season of Hope in Japan

What began as a ministry to tsunami survivors a decade ago has grown into a countrywide lineup of biblical programs that air to Japanese listeners over 20 FM stations. A team of pastors produces programs while TWR is developing on-the-ground outreaches to men and women through Every Man A Warrior and TWR Women of Hope.

The evangelistic SON-Lift programs first developed for unreached people groups in China are being translated into Japanese. The TWR Japan staff also partners with churches to distribute gospel tracts and program schedules to encourage more individuals to listen to the broadcasts. Our Japan staff has a vibrant and growing ministry in a country that has been called the second-largest unreached people group in the world.

Africa Needs Jesus: Radios for Africa '21

We’re bringing the word of God straight into the hands of those most in need in Africa!

Many parts of Africa do not have the means of connecting to the internet. Radio is not only affordable, but convenient, easy to use and a virtual lifeline to many. It’s why the ministry of TWR is so treasured in this part of the world, and why it’s all the more important we give its people the means to tune into the hope of Jesus Christ!

Your gift will put a wind-up or solar-powered radio (or two, or three, or twenty) into the grateful hands of people in Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. And with TWR, when you give a radio, you give hope. Will you join us?

Animated Bible Stories for Buddhists

TWR MOTION equips church planters with evangelism and discipleship videos they can use online to engage with people who are asking spiritual questions and are open to being discipled. After the ministry's animated Bible series Share the Story for the Arab world was requested in more than 12 languages, TWR MOTION began a new animated Bible series for Buddhists, beginning with the Thai language.

Our partner in Thailand shared, "The soil in Thailand is ready for planting, and digital content is crucial for getting the gospel to every Thai person." Your gift will equip church planters in the Buddhist context to connect with people online and then personally lead them to Jesus.

Bible Stories for Bolivian Children

TWR Bolivia has produced a new radio program for children who speak the indigenous Quechua language. Each episode tells them about God and teaches biblical values and principles in their native language. The program has been so popular that the production team is recording another 170 episodes.

Quechua people live primarily in the Andean Highlands or difficult-to-access forest regions. Over 2 million children in Bolivia speak Quechua. Radio is a key tool in accessing this people group, and strategically placed radio receivers immediately draw the Quechua to Jesus as they realize he speaks the language of their hearts!

Your gift of $58 provides a radio and gives a Quechua child’s family an opportunity to hear the Bible in their heart language.

Bratislava Office Projects

TWR's Bratislava office building is over 50 years old and needs some refurbishment.

When TWR originally purchased the building several years ago, the inside was completely renovated to provide adequate office space, but only the most urgent exterior repairs were done on one exterior wall.

The insulation and exterior need to be done on the remaining walls to reduce energy costs and protect against the extremes of summer and winter. In addition, the office vehicle used for ministry travel across Europe is 11 years old and needs replacing.

Please prayerfully consider helping with this practical need.

Bridge to the Heart for Indonesia

TWR’s national partner in Indonesia has a long-running and multifaceted outreach to this archipelago country in Southeast Asia. While those ministries are continuing, it is also developing more programs such as Bridge to the Heart, which will be produced in the Indonesian and Javanese languages.

Bridge to the Heart is for the estimated 90 million in Indonesia who adhere to a mixed religion of Islam, Indonesian culture, Buddhism, Hinduism and animism. We want to introduce them to Jesus Christ. Your gift to this new effort will help TWR to reach more Indonesians with the gospel.

China Ministries

While much of the media world goes digital, including some of TWR’s ministries, there are still very strategic places for shortwave radio, and one of those is our ministry to China. TWR is still sharing the gospel by shortwave radio, and we are refreshing our ministry to China with new content that is solidly biblical.

Discipleship on the Air, a mainstay of TWR’s programming for over 20 years, is getting additional content, and a new program called Following Jesus will use drama and Bible storytelling to speak to the unbeliever. A gift toward production and airtime costs for these programs will help TWR continue a vibrant ministry to China.

Côte d'Ivoire FM Project

In partnership with Radio Evangile of Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), a country in West Africa, TWR has the opportunity to build an FM station in Yamoussoukro, a city 150 miles north of Abidjan with a population of 350,000 people.

Our goal is to minister to the people groups of this city and the surrounding areas in the languages of French, Baoulé, Dioula, Bété, Bambara and Senoufo.

Programming will share the gospel and offer biblical discipleship; provide Christian education to children; improve maternal and child health; raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola and Covid-19 and promote community events for treatment and vaccination; contribute to the environment with broadcasts on agriculture and entrepreneurship; and promote community programs that bring peace and social cohesion.

TWR will also serve the community with an early warning system and public service announcements while also using the station for research and innovation in Christian communication.

Czech Children's Programming

The Czech Republic has the highest percentage of atheists in the world. In most cities and towns, there is no local evangelical church or Sunday school available to help them find God or even find out that He exists. Children born into this culture may never get the opportunity to hear about Jesus and come to an early belief in Him. These children are not only the future of their nation, but a very real hope for the present as well, as their faith can lead families, neighbors, and communities to the Lord.

To respond to this need, TWR Czech (TWR's national partner in the Czech Republic) has developed an exciting range of children's programs that bring the good news of God's love to many young lives for the very first time. Designed for all ages, the aim of the programs is to change young lives for Christ. This is a great opportunity to be involved in children's ministry in the Czech Republic, but the work can only grow as the Lord leads supporters to come alongside the Czech team.

A gift of $50 will cover the costs of preparing, producing and broadcasting one full 15-minute Konafasek program on radio and other media devices. Konafasek, which focuses on sharing biblical principles on life in a story-telling format that children can easily understand, is a term used at the end of the day when kids would crawl under the blanket.

 

Alternatively, a gift of $300 will make 90 minutes of the Kormidlo program via radio and other media devices possible. Kormidlo means ‘rudder’ and seeks to explain in a dynamic, interactive way how God needs to be the rudder of our lives.

 

There are approximately two million listeners waiting to hear that God loves them. Please consider supporting children's programs in the Czech Republic today!

 

 

Digital Outreach to Young Adults in Europe

Four enthusiastic young TWR teams in Europe are developing online ministries as part of TWR’s outreach to the millennial youth of Europe. The very successful This Is Real Talk! podcast that began in Spain received 680,000 views for its first six episodes, and we would like to replicate it for other countries in Europe.

A digital ministry in Ukraine called Instorio has 15,000 followers of its weekly blog and YouTube, Instagram, and Telegram posts. The PureWave mobile app developed in Russia is being listened to in 30 countries around the world and addresses issues of relationships and faith. And the YouTube project, also in Russian, is designed to reach out to unchurched youth and guide them to Christian values.

All four of these ministries need more staff and the resources to expand. A gift to this digital outreach will help TWR share the gospel with a new generation of young adults.